The deal marks another move by a U.S. company to tap the Canadian cannabis industry as the country prepares to legalize marijuana for recreational use later this year.

Jewell, who recently sold Jewell’s Country Market, is leaning on a deep background in agriculture and horticulture to produce a quality product in a state-of-the-art facility located in the BioCommons Research Park.

In February 2017, Health Canada gave the business the green light to sell cannabis.

Earlier this year, Canada’s Island Garden was one of three companies that entered into an agreement to supply the P.E.I. government with legal and regulated marijuana.

He expects the company’s market both for medicinal and recreational marijuana to stretch well beyond Canada’s borders in coming years.

“Now we’re part of an international company,’’ he says.

Jewell started the process five years ago to have a medical marijuana growing facility.

He told The Guardian a while back the biggest challenge was to get reassurance that all of the systems, including computer software, LED lights and the heating/ventilation system, were all working properly.

His product needed to pass stringent testing at a lab in Fredericton, N.B., followed by Health Canada conducting an on-site inspection of the facility.